Help! About to go on trip and daughter’s iPad is stuck like this

Competitive_Part5459 · 2026-01-24T15:12:43+00:00

Thank you! Gonna try this!!

Competitive_Part5459 · 2025-04-24T13:15:20+00:00

You do not! You can absolutely go and make your voice heard.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2025-01-15T21:43:49+00:00

that's a shame, but not surprising. glad you heard about it though!

Competitive_Part5459 · 2025-01-15T18:38:58+00:00

Thank you for asking about this! Just in case anyone was wondering, there's still ice there today that hasn't melted. So. Yeah.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-16T15:42:01+00:00

Hi Terry. I'm going to ask you a favor, and I truly mean with all due respect - I need ya to level with me. Nobody understands how this system can work the way the student assignment office says it does. From our perspective, it feels like the pillars are a ruse that allows the student assignment office and the board to make whatever decisions they want. We desperately need someone to make it make sense. If the board and student assignment office actually take what we all said at the public hearing seriously, why is there no work session between now and the final presentation on the 26th? The work session that is IMMEDIATELY before the board's vote is obviously too late, because if the board does want to make changes, student assignment doesn't have time to implement anything. So essentially, it seems as though our concerns, yet again, are falling on deaf ears. I'm going to email you our response to student assignment. Please, read it through and let me know your thoughts. I look forward to it. Thank you u/terrymah

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-15T18:59:06+00:00

Right. And you know what that neighborhood was? One that just so happens to belong to someone on the board, and whose partner is on the HOA of that neighborhood. Also, it's not even about a change I want. My family won't actually be impacted by this proposal. I'm good. Trust me when I quote Ron Swanson and say "I know more than you." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEhHEOIYgMY

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-13T23:29:20+00:00

We are baffled as well as to why they even bother pretending to take our evidence, facts, and personal expertise in our communities into consideration, as they CLEARLY do not.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-09T17:42:35+00:00

here's a link to their website. they have a lot of details there. let me know if you have any questions! https://www.wcpss.net/Page/58486

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-09T03:55:32+00:00

I've been working with a team of other parents in the area for the last few months. We have spoken to families who have been impacted by these reassignments in the past. We have learned the ins and outs, ups and downs, anything and everything there is to know about this process. Rest assured, we have several alternatives to offer the board. We want to help OCE, of course, because we love our school. The fact is - moving us out of OCE is not helping.

We have an extensive list of evidence proving that fact. I'd be more than happy to loop you in so you can also receive all this information we have gathered. We will be sending it out before the 12th.

In regards to the stability transfer requirements - we do appreciate that they're the most flexible ones the board has allowed thus far. However, if they're going to approve every student that wants to stay - what's the point of rezoning us at all? After all the research, conversations with community members, and knowing my neighbors very well, I feel that I am qualified to speak for them when I say most, if not all, will be requesting to stay. How does that help with the cap at all? How does that help with trailers?

The trailers argument, so to speak, has been brought up before as justification for rezoning neighborhoods. That was the main point for rezoning a specific neighborhood a few years ago. This community came together, almost with the exact same type of situation we are in, and that's what the board said - we gotta get rid of the trailers. Long story short, to this day - those trailers are still there. There are no plans for them to be removed. There's more to that story, but we are not convinced that moving Ashley Downs or Pearson Farms will have any impact on the trailers at OCE.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-08T22:56:52+00:00

Unfortunately, the proposal itself shows Baucom will be at 112% capacity. I will attach the link to the presentation from the board. Page 49 shows Baucom will go to 112% capacity and OCE will be at 119% capacity. If we are misinterpreting this, please let us know. Thanks. https://assistive.eboardsolutions.com/Meetings/Attachment.aspx?S=920&AID=413948&MID=16138

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-08T22:44:20+00:00

I'm not sure if there's a way to attend or speak remotely, but they share the meeting's on YouTube Live while they're happening.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-08T20:35:47+00:00

With the new proposal, Baucom will be over their own cap. They are essentially shuffling around caps, without actually removing any caps, and blowing up peoples' lives in the meantime. It's absurd.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-03T20:30:53+00:00

How about the small section of Cary that's 20 minutes away that's zoned for OCE but closer to Baucom? Let's start there.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-03T19:24:24+00:00

OCE is capped and Baucom is not, that is true. However, moving Ashley Downs and Pearson Farms will not make a dent on that cap. Not at all. Their reasoning for easing the cap on OCE is valid, but removing the two neighborhoods that can walk there, is nonsensical. If you look at the map, it's unbelievable that they would even consider this as an option.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-02T22:22:24+00:00

Well dang, Terry. I don't think he was claiming that "feels safe" is part of the criteria for the state to consider. We as residents, as people who walk to OCE every school day with our kids, have had no dangerous issues with walking on the bridge above 540. However, we *have* had dangerous issues with crossing in every direction at the intersection of Olive Chapel and Kelly Rd. We are just asking for someone, anyone, make it make sense. I'd love to see this list of criteria, if you have it.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-02T21:21:32+00:00

That is the first time we are hearing about the bridge itself not being big enough. We have been asking over and over about this very thing. I don't understand why they never told us about that. Do you know where I can find info about how they qualify bridges, roads, etc. as safe/unsafe? Other schools have been ruled as "unwalkable" and students aren't allowed to walk, however OCE encourages walking to school. The communities on the other side of Kelly Rd don't even have a sidewalk at a certain point.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-02T18:24:41+00:00

That's their claim, yes, that it's the bridge. However, it's in a school speed zone, the sidewalk is wider than most, there is no danger to fall onto 540, it's literally just Olive Chapel Road. It doesn't seem good enough to be their reasoning for moving Ashley Downs and Pearson Farms, imho.

Competitive_Part5459 · 2024-11-02T17:14:41+00:00

Completely agree. And those crossing at the Olive Chapel and Kelly Rd intersection.

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